POETRY QUIZ WITH CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS #9
End rhyme - correct answer repetition of identical sounds at the end of successive lines
Rhyme scheme - correct answer pattern of rhyming words within a given stanza or
poem
Slant rhymes - correct answer aka off rhymes, near rhymes
Sounds that are close but not exact duplicates of one another
Onomatopoeia - correct answer words that virtually replicate sound
Alliteration - correct answer repetition of initial sounds in words and syllables
Assonance - correct answer repetition of similar vowel sounds
Consonance - correct answer aka dissonance, half rhyme, oblique rhyme
Repetition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words
Meter - correct answer aka measure
Patterns of rhythm in poetry
Separated by "/"
Foot - correct answer poetic unit of measurement
Iamb - correct answer u/
Trochee - correct answer /u
Spondee - correct answer //
Dactyl - correct answer /uu
Anapest - correct answer uu/
Scansion - correct answer process of analyzing poetry
Caesura - correct answer internal pauses
End-stops - correct answer punctuation cuing the reader to pause briefly
Enjambent - correct answer aka run-on
Absence of punctuation=eliminates need to pause
Free verse - correct answer ignores conventions of meter and rhythm
End rhyme - correct answer repetition of identical sounds at the end of successive lines
Rhyme scheme - correct answer pattern of rhyming words within a given stanza or
poem
Slant rhymes - correct answer aka off rhymes, near rhymes
Sounds that are close but not exact duplicates of one another
Onomatopoeia - correct answer words that virtually replicate sound
Alliteration - correct answer repetition of initial sounds in words and syllables
Assonance - correct answer repetition of similar vowel sounds
Consonance - correct answer aka dissonance, half rhyme, oblique rhyme
Repetition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words
Meter - correct answer aka measure
Patterns of rhythm in poetry
Separated by "/"
Foot - correct answer poetic unit of measurement
Iamb - correct answer u/
Trochee - correct answer /u
Spondee - correct answer //
Dactyl - correct answer /uu
Anapest - correct answer uu/
Scansion - correct answer process of analyzing poetry
Caesura - correct answer internal pauses
End-stops - correct answer punctuation cuing the reader to pause briefly
Enjambent - correct answer aka run-on
Absence of punctuation=eliminates need to pause
Free verse - correct answer ignores conventions of meter and rhythm
